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oasisfan35 wrote:Let’s Get Real About Coronavirus Tests
Medical to the degree that it takes place in a lab anyway, I know it is an opinion piece but it was surely disconcerting to me.
Wed May 06, 2020 7:16 pm
knee tunes wrote:oasisfan35 wrote:Let’s Get Real About Coronavirus Tests
Medical to the degree that it takes place in a lab anyway, I know it is an opinion piece but it was surely disconcerting to me.
Yes. In addition to that, I just read this article , also disconcerting
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/27/cor ... reopening/
For a population to even begin evaluating infection rates, there has to be adequate testing. The ideal positive/total tests ratio to be sure a wide enough net is cast is 3%. WHO recommends a minimum 10% (well, actually maximum) positivity rate of 10%.
It is easy to figure out the rate for any given state by taking the total cases divided by the number of tests done. Here's all the data for each state. (But the positivity rate isn't given so ya have to do your own math )
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Georgia's positivity rate is 15% and everybody's down there running around.
South Korea wasn't satisfied until their rate was 3%.
Wed May 06, 2020 11:36 pm
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knee tunes wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/kawasaki-disease-15-children-hospitalized-new-york-city-coronavirus-link/
Kids aren't dying from corona, PHATJ, but they are affected.
Thu May 07, 2020 1:56 am
oasisfan35 wrote:knee tunes wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/kawasaki-disease-15-children-hospitalized-new-york-city-coronavirus-link/
Kids aren't dying from corona, PHATJ, but they are affected.
All of the children experienced a persistent fever, more than half reported rash, abdominal pain, vomiting or diarrhea, and less than half experienced respiratory symptoms.
Granted it is only currently an assumed association but just the thought of this eliciting the fact that we know very little about this virus other than it can kill you harshly and effectively, I don't know... might evoke some pause and honest reflection in some homo sapiens.
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Thu May 07, 2020 6:30 am
verb_to_trust wrote:I read today that someone who had talked to a friend who was an air force recruiter said that history of covid permanently disqualified you from enlisting. That to me suggests they know it causes long lasting damage, or at least they suspect it could.
Thu May 07, 2020 6:31 am
Thu May 07, 2020 1:47 pm
verb_to_trust wrote:I read today that someone who had talked to a friend who was an air force recruiter said that history of covid permanently disqualified you from enlisting. That to me suggests they know it causes long lasting damage, or at least they suspect it could.
Thu May 07, 2020 2:24 pm
E.H. Ruddock wrote:verb_to_trust wrote:I read today that someone who had talked to a friend who was an air force recruiter said that history of covid permanently disqualified you from enlisting. That to me suggests they know it causes long lasting damage, or at least they suspect it could.
It could just be that they don't know enough about long term damage yet, so currently they are doing that as a precaution. May not be a permanent rule once they know more.
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